Here is this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast. In keeping with world events today, barring a closing concession to St. Patrick’s, it’s International Women’s Day part 2. No further commentary needed, let’s stay in the backseat and allow them to speak for themselves, with their music. If your Apple or Android podcast subscriptions […]

Our weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir radio program doesn’t always land on International Women’s Day, but we almost always, always, make the effort to devote a nearby episode to the occasion. This week’s was no different, featuring squeezebox performances by powerful women from all over, especially leaning toward the Celtic as if anticipating next week’s celebration […]

The train of thought travelled through a few stations to get here, but Bruce figured that as Socalled had donated to support songwriter Rae Spoon (who is doing poorly, and needs your help urgently), it could be framed as a celebration of the imminent Jewish holiday of Purim, apparently characterised by doing good and charitable […]

What was Bruce’s plan for this week’s playlist for the weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast on CFRO Co-op Community Radio at 100.5 fm? Those of you who have “a heady melange of alt-accordion recordings in a variety of genres from a wide range of locales” on your Bingo cards, please dab the square. If your Apple or Android podcast […]

As the vanguard of the world accordion beat, we are among the first to learn of exciting new developments in our field… and, sadly, also to be the bearers of bad news. Sadly, it falls to us today to announce the death of Forere Motloheloa, most widely heard squeezing the distinctive accordion riff driving “The […]

As people who are in the business of giving away music made by others for free (over the radio airwaves), we have long contemplated the question of how to best promote financially supporting the artists whose efforts fuel our weekly broadcasts. Of course, buying from merch tables at live performances gives them a great cut, […]

Bruce gets caught up in the tyranny of themed episodes, compelling him to air songs that are relevant to something going on out in the world instead of the songs he’d rather be playing right this minute!!!! (Granted, he does his best to find a way to slot the songs he likes into the themes […]

No one had “sea shanty revival” on their 2020 bingo card. But because the ducks and swerves of popular culture stubbornly can’t be predicted or dictated, that improbable eventuality came to pass, with “the Wellerman” taking youth video service TikTok by storm and introducing an entire generation to a musical tradition they had likely never […]

Here it is, just into a new year, and already we’re sequence-breaking and skipping directly to a homegrown celebration of all squeezy things Canadian as if it was July 1st! There are reasons we tend to visit this territory at this time of year, and I promise you: they are boring ones not worth discussing […]

Having been distracted for some reason, at 8 PM tonight Bruce thought it was Tuesday and hadn’t recorded tonight’s 10 PM episode. He was personally startled by the otherwise everyday Washington Post headline: “President Trump incites his supporters at a rally Wednesday to march on the Capitol…”https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/06/domestic-terrorist/ That added a bit of 2020 to tonight’s […]